Canadians to protest Detroit water shutoffs

DETROIT - A Canadian group is planning to bring about 1,000 litres of water from Windsor to Detroit to protest thousands of residential service shutoffs by Detroit's water department.

The Windsor chapter of the Council of Canadians says the water will be carried in a convoy Thursday through a commuter tunnel to a rally outside Detroit City Hall.

Council national chair Maude Barlow says she will ask U.S. President Barack Obama to declare a state of emergency in Detroit.

The water issue gained national attention last month after activists appealed to the United Nations for assistance.

On Monday, the utility suspended shutoffs for 15 days to educate customers on how to make payment plans.

It has said nearly $90 million was owed on past due accounts.

By The Associated Press

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(1) Comment

By Hadenoughyet|JULY 24, 2014 08:44 AM

Detroit is dead, in yet American citizens are forced to reside there because they can't go anywhere else. The US government sends millions/billions abroad to help people in distress in yet their own citizens are dieing of starvation and homelessness caused by nothing more than GREED from the elitist and public sector unions in the area. It doesn't take a genius to find out where all the money went, look at all the public sector and corporate welfare who took MORE MORE MORE for ME ME ME, because it's MINE MINE MINE.................There all retired now, with no care for the consequences they have caused. We in Ontario may face the same fate in a few decades if we don't get out government and public sector back in order.........